How about a windfall profits tax on this?

posted at 5:49 pm on April 16, 2009 by
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Any minute now, the left is going to start shrieking about how unfair this is, how Google is price-gouging its Adwords customers, and gee, isn’t it starting to look a lot like a monopoly or at least some kind of unfair market domination?

Shares of Google Inc. rose in after-hours trading Thursday after the Internet search company said its first-quarter profit climbed 8.9% and topped Wall Street’s forecast, amid a tough advertising environment.

Any minute now…  I’ll just wait right here for it.

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Google is a company ruled by leftists, Laura. They haven’t a thing to worry about.

MadisonConservative on April 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM

I suppose I should give them a break. After all, Al Gore has to pay the electric bill on that 20k square foot house and keep his jet fueled some kind of way.

Laura on April 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM

I sold my shares of Google a couple of months ago for a tiny profit. Kind of kicking myself.

BadgerHawk on April 16, 2009 at 6:24 PM